can i be nosey??where do you live and what is rent like?

[moljam]

very nosey!
i want to move!!!!so silly thread asking what area you live,what kind of rent you pay ?

we live in north cornwall,3 beds,garden-£500 a month

Crikey, that's someone's monthly wage. What on earth do people do? Surely you don't get people earning £30k odd a year down south living in council housing, or do you? Or is council housing completely extortionate as well?

STruggle, Twinkle

That's why when folk say "How can you be on a shoestring when you earn ++£30k - this is why.

Council tax is another £110 per month on top.

Wiltshire 3 bed and garden £900

Central London wages are significantly higher, but not high enough to be proportional to the cost of housing. Obviously there are plenty of parts of London & the SE where you can get a 3 bed place for significantly less than £2K a month.

Well I'll hold my hands up and say I had no idea that rents were so ridiculously high down there. We struggle to pay £500.

st albans, 4 beds, 2 receps = £1550pm (but shortly to be £1650 grr)

My brother and his girlfriend rent a 2 bed, 1st floor flat with a piece of garden too small to even call a courtyard.

They pay £800 per month.

jinglyjen I'm not surprised at that expensive link. I rent a two bedroon terrace, tiny box garden, one downstairs living room and tiny kitchen, rent is £870. Nothing cheaper, I look all the time
ALL my money goes on rent and council tax.

Oh, and I am SOOOOO pleased to have to absorb the cost of having Ken Livingstone running the show

Oh, and the 2012 Olympics

2 bed good garden, small conservatory. 675.

(prices range for that sort of a property from 600 to 700)

I live near Scooby the £1,000 is for the shit houses in the shit areas the decent houses in okay areas start at around £1,500

you in cambridge OMDB?

Honestly though, what do people do? I work in the public sector and if I worked down south I would earn not a penny more than I do up here. The rents people are mentioning equate to my entire monthly salary.

twinkle - council places in my area (in the south) 2 years plus for waiting and one council has slashed 4000 people off the list as they said they'd never get a house. (6000 were left on)

my rent in a HA House is £400 a month, i don't pay thaat as have 2 disabled kids and housing benifit.

yes

We're renting our house, 3 beds, large garden, garage, new build in Lincoln for £650 a month.

We're renting out our house in Harrogate, 2 beds, small yard, no garage, old terrace house for £750 a month.

Our old house is in a very desirable area and property in harrogate is much more expensive which is why we've kept hold of it.
We're going to buy here this year but we're waiting until the secondary school allocations are known before we decide where.

twinkle we struggle
I work every hour of every day, at least 70hrs a week, and the bloody landlord wants to put the rent up as payment for re-decorating. I told him I'd rather have mouldy walls than pay extra and that I don't want him to re-decorate. It is shabby inside.

Andover is hampshire moljam..... i lived there for 15 years,ds1 has moved back there last year.
if dh does get the job and you are looking to move there,let me know and i can give you some help of nicer areas.....i think theres some!!

Small chunk of Oxford, have never looked at prices elsewhere, allegedly they are more expensive. God! 2 bed house with small garden that you could swing a kitten in, anything from 750 - 1100 a month depending on what it has. Truly unbelievable.

You can get better deals locally by looking in things like the Oxford University Gazette (google it for website, then try searching something like Accommodation), or www.dailyinfo.co.uk. I hope someone can think of a local equivalent for you.

thanks smeeinit,is it nice then?honestly???are schools ok?is it big or small place?were only thinking about it as realisticly i need to be able to visit mil reguarly in cornwall.

moljam, i shall be as honest as i can without offending anybody on here that may live there!!!
Andover is a nice place and has some lovely surrounding villages,it isnt that big and the shopping is crap,there are good and bad schools as there are in every town, my ds's attended Vigo school which had a good ofsted and very good repuatation etc HOWEVER i struggled for years to get any help or even acknowlegment for my severely dyslexic son and this is one of the reasons why we moved.
my eldest ds (17) now lives back in Andover and loves it. i however would only move back there if if were the last place on earth!

Nice part of West Midlands - 3 bed semi is around £600 - £750 a month.

Thankfully as mine is a HA house, my rent is only £360 for a 4 bed semi.

My brother lives in Bewdley and rents a lovely 2 bed flat in the town centre for around £400 a month.